202 MR. W. R. OGILVIE-GRANT ON THE [Mar. 6, 



62. Demiegretta sacra. 



Demiegretta sacra (Gmel.), Salvad. t. c. iii. p. 345. 



a. (S ad. Rubiana; 10.3.87. Bill grey; legs yellow; iris 

 yellow. Food, fish. 



A very fine adult male, with the crest and dorsal plumes long and 

 well developed, the latter extending beyond the wings, and the bill 

 seems unusually large and strong, the culmea measuring 3"6 ; post- 

 femoral powder-down patches largely developed. 



63. Butorides javanica. 



Butoroides javanica (Horsf.), Salvad. t. c. iii. p. 359. 



a. c? juv. Aola, Guadalcanar ; 19.4.87. Bill black and yellow ; 

 legs olive ; iris yellow. Food, fish. 



b. S imm. Aola, Guadalcanar ; 6. 5. 87. Bill black and 

 yellow ; legs grey ; iris yellow. 



64. Ardeiralla woodfordi, sp. n. 



a. $ nearly ad. Aola, Guadalcanar; 5.7.87. Bill straw- 

 colour, with black streak on tip"; legs olive ; iris yellow. 



b. (S imm. Aola, Guadalcanar; 15. 7.87. Bill above black, 

 below grey ; legs light brown ; iris yellow. 



c. 5 ad. Aola, Guadalcanar ; 30. 8. 87. Bill above brown, 

 below yellow ; legs grey-brown ; iris yellow. 



Total length. Oulmen. Wing. Tail. Tarsus, 



in. in. in. in. in. 



a 18-4 3-1 7-4 2-7 2-7 



b 18-5 3-1 7-5 2-7 27 



c 18-4 3-1 7-6 2-6 2-7 



Char. Adult female (spec. c). Head ashy black, fading gradually 

 into the dark chestnut-rufous of the neck, back, and wing-coverts. 

 Kump and upper tail-coverts dusky, fringed with cinnamon-rufous. 

 Quills and tail-feathers ashy black, like the head. Superciliary 

 streak and cheeks chestnut. Throat and neck flecked with dark 

 shaft-spots. Whole under surface of the body cinnamon-rufous, 

 becoming more cinnamon and less rufous below the breast. 

 Axillaries whitish buff, under wing-coverts cinnamon and chestnut. 

 Quills below ashy black. The long loose upper wing-coverts exceed 

 the length of the wings by one inch. 



Specimen a differs from the above in the following particulars 

 only : — Some of the feathers of the head have still light transverse 

 margins ; the upper wing-coverts are light cinnamon, with dusky 

 V-shaped subterminal markings ; the quills are still edged with 

 buff, and the outer secondaries are light red with a subterminal 

 dark brown spot edged with buff. 



Young male (spec. 6). Head ashy black, rest of the upper 

 surface dark reddish brown and blackish, all the feathers being 

 fringed with pale buff. Basal half of the wing-coverts ashy black, 

 each feather terminating with three parallel bars of cinnamon-rufous, 



